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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1910
Page
6
Leonard A. Hawter of Brooklyn New York describes a long battle with a severe skin disease that started as a leg sore. After trying many doctors he tried Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and reports full improvement after two sets, noting sleepless nights and limited mobility improved.
A gentleman assigns a general servant a long list of tasks from cleaning windows to minding animals and keeping the house stocked. The servant asks if there is clay in the garden to make bricks in his spare time, sparking a quick exchange about the possibility.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, a noted suffrage leader, says in New York that women already govern in many ways. A light anecdote follows about an editor to illustrate observant frankness in proposing to Miss Cash and Miss Dash.
Tarsus in Asia Minor now lit by electricity drawn from the Cydnus river. The city has 450 electric street lights and about 600 incandescent lights for private use. The article ends with a moral quip about temptation and sin.
In Lawrence at Mrs. Margaret Merritt’s home a leather wallet hidden in a bureau yielded over a century old American coins and paper currency. Notables include a 1807 American half dollar and Bank of Illinois greenbacks payable to Henry Clay and to John Quincy Adams dated 1837 and 1838. The collection may be given to the state historical society.
Hattie Lewis 18 daughter of Dr O S Lewis Crawford county treasurer suffered a severe tongue laceration when a wild broncho jumped a hedge fence. The limb tore the tongue, seven stitches were required and she was unconscious for hours.
Judge J C Postlethwaite a Kansas pioneer and Jewell County organizer dies at his Jewell City home aged 62. He helped form Jewell county and shaped state development. In 1898 Governor Stanley named him to the railroad board then the Court of Visitation, and he was active in Kansas Republican affairs.
At a Manhattan meeting of two G A R posts, Manhattan No. 271 and Lew Gove No. 100, two committees were appointed to study feasibility and plan a $5,000 bronze monument to memory of Civil War soldiers. Members favor erection and aim for at least $2,000 if built, with sites on courthouse lawn or college campus.
Joe Lamendola a 32 year old Greek filed a $10 000 lawsuit against Union Traction Co of Independence alleging injuries from an electrical shock while using the company telephone in the car barn at Coffeyville where he worked as watchman He says the phone was improperly grounded and the shock caused his hands to become atrophied.
Dr M A Barber professor of bacteriology and pathology at the University of Kansas has been invited by Dr Richard P Strong director of the bureau of science of Manila to two years of medical research in the Philippine Islands. He plans to request a leave of absence at the next regents meeting.
Geary County farmers report a sharp rise in coyote numbers this fall and increasing boldness. Several animals have been killed in recent weeks and farmers consider organizing a county wide coyote hunt to protect their farms.
The one year old son of Ora Ard a farmer living southeast of Iola died from choking on a coffee bean. He put the bean in his mouth coughed and drew it into the wind pipe where it wedged and caused lung inflammation leading to death.
A reflective line asserts that true humility preserves a sense of value in a person who would not be worth being humble about if he saw himself as worthless. The statement frames humility as a virtue tied to inner worth.
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